Barack Obama, Presidential Race, Mosul: Your Tuesday Evening Briefing

1. “Stop whining.” Those were President Obama’s words for Donald Trump as he called on the Republican candidate to stop trying to “discredit the elections” before any votes were even cast, as Mr. Trump has done in recent days.

“It’s unprecedented,” Mr. Obama said of Mr. Trump’s accusations that the presidential election is rigged. “It happens to be based on no facts.”

The campaign to retake Mosul from the Islamic State will help define the president’s efforts to take the U.S. off the front lines of the counterterrorism war.

Our reporting team sent this account of how Kurdish forces advanced toward ISIS-held villages by moonlight.

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3. Ecuadorannounced that it had cut off Julian Assange’s access to the internet in his exile in the country’s embassy in London, making it clear that it feared the country was being sucked into an effort to “interfere in electoral processes” in the United States by the activities of the Wikleaks founder.

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4. What does Bob Dylan think about winning the Nobel Prize in Literature? The Swedish Academy doesn’t know. It hasn’t spoken with him.

Mr. Dylan has played two concerts since the announcement, but hasn’t made any comment about the prize or said whether he’ll attend the ceremony in Stockholm in December.

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5. A Wall street trader who earned millions making bets in commodities markets says a 68-year-old art professor swindled him out of more than half a million dollars.

Andrew Hall had been using his fortune to start a small art museum. Among the works he bought were 24 paintings by Leon Golub, an American postwar painter of expressionistic, heroic-scale figures. Except then, he said, he realized they weren’t.

Above, “Two Heads,” which sold at auction for $31,250 as a Leon Golub work.

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6. Pearl Jam and Tupac Shakur, seen above about two years before he was shot and killed, are among 19 nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Inductees will be announced in December, and the ceremony will be held in April, with excerpts broadcast on HBO.

After 33 years in the public eye, he has spent the last 18 months reacquainting himself with normal life — shopping at Target, hanging out with his son — and traveling for a documentary on climate change.

His voluminous beard, he says, serves as a reminder that he’s entered a new phase.

“I don’t miss late-night television,” he said. “And I’m a little embarrassed that, for 33 years, it was the laser focus of my life.”

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8. The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Chicago Cubs, 6-0, in Game 3 of their National League Championship Series in California. The Dodgers lead in the series, 2-1.

Above, Yasmani Grandal is cheered as he passes by the Cubs starting pitcher, Jake Arrieta, after hitting a two-run homer in the fourth inning.

The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Cleveland Indians, 5-1, in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series in Canada. The Indians lead the series, 3-1.

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9. Skeletons from ancient settlements in the Near East are providing a glimpse of one of the most important transitions in human history: the agricultural revolution.